Policy

Reports of fake or nonexistent terror attacks risk unnecessary panic and promote an outsized response to a very real problem. Within the last month alone, a trend has emerged in which officials or news agenc...

Saudi Arabia is embarking on a large scale project to build a 600 mile wall on their border with Iraq, to shield the country from ISIS and other chaos in Iraq and Syria. ISIS, which controls much of Iraq, consi...

The US renewable energy industry is arguing that it can offer rural areas an economic boost along with the coal industry, in the face of President Trump’s pro-coal agenda. Wind-farm developers and suppliers emp...

A representative for the European Commission in the UK said that an independent Scotland would have to “join the list” of nations seeking EU membership, even if an independence vote happens before Brexit become...

A group of senior Republicans, including former secretaries of state George Schultz and James Baker, are calling for plans to institute a national carbon tax to replace the Obama administration’s federal regula...

Both of Elon Musk’s companies, Tesla and SpaceX, have joined 97 other tech companies as signatories supporting Washington state’s lawsuit against Donald Trump’s immigration ban. The ban, which blocks immigra...

A US judge ruled Friday that Google must comply with search warrants issued by the FBI for a domestic fraud investigation, turning over emails from Gmail users that are stored outside the US. Google said they p...

Ireland is on track to become the first country to entirely stop funding fossil fuels, after parliament passed a bill to stop public funding of fuels such as oil, gas, and coal by the €8 billion Ireland Strateg...

In response to the largest protests the country has seen since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, the Romanian government has stepped away from proposed measures to decriminalize corruption. After demonstrat...

Uber’s CEO, Travis Kalanick, is backing out of Donald Trump’s economic advisory council, after public perception of support for Trump’s policies led to an online boycott against the ride service. In an email ad...